Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-11-25
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
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A steamer su.k q. the EnQII.L Chan
mel aad ever 100 Perssns brswaed.
The German steamer w. A. Scholten.
from Rotterdam, for New York, was sunk
in the English channel within 10 miles of
Dover, Saturday night by a collision with
the Rosa Mary of Hartlepool Two hun
dred passengers were on board and at least
1870 of these are dead or missing, though it
is hoped that some were picked up by pass
ing vessels. The collision took place during
a dense fog and the Scholten sunk within
90 minutes. The steamer Eber rescued 80
of the crew and passengers and landed
them at Dover When the collision occur
red a rush for the lifeboats ensued. but only
two could be used 1t is not known
whether the other boats were damaged by
the collision or were unSeaworthy when the
steamer sailed, but they were evidently
not in condition to he quickly lowered. Ii
does not appear which ship was responsible
for the disaster.
Henry Ward Beechers 1000 books
brought only 10000 at the auction sale
His brio a-brac swelled the amount to
$4,000
The winter quarters at Bridgeport. Conn,
of Barnum K Bailey's greatest show on
earth, with the circus paraphenalia and
many valuable animals were burned Sun
day evening. The loss is roughly estimated
at more than 800 600.
An aerolite weighing three tons dropped
with loud report at Amsterdam, n Y,
last week Friday morning, making a deep
indentation in the ground. Local experts
find traces of iron, nickel, aluminium and
other metals in the nerolite
A frightful accident occurred to a freight
train near Paducah, Ky. last week Friday.
The engine ran on a burning trestle and
went through with Is cars, falling 81 feet
The engineer and a brakeman were killed.
Little Rock, Ark, has learned to the
tune Of $500, 900 that a cigarette in the
hands of boy in the vicinity of cotton is
| quite as destructive TO property on some
| occasions as to the boy himself in general
Hong Yen Chang a graduate of Yale
| college has been refused admission to the
New York bar because he is Chinauan.
a shocking and unusual accident occurred
near Wichita, Kansas, last week A little
| child fell down well tube twelve inches
in diameter for 80 feet, A grab hook was
| lowered and after some minutes it caught
the child who was drawn more than half
way up and then fell back The tube was
| then dug up and the dead body Of the child
| recovered.
Eugene Field, the Western humorist,
came into a fortune of $40, 900 on attaining
his majority, and spent the bulk of it in a
gorgeous tour of Europe. He now gets
| 800 "A week on a Chicago newspaper
Nevada is about as proud over the fact
that big vein of fine anthracite coal has
been struck as it is of it's silver mines
There's about as much money in the coal,
too, as in the silver.
Our government is taking lessons in
| Christian integrity from China 1t appears
that in the tardy indemnity voted to China
for the outrage at Rock Springs there were
six cases duplicated. The Chinese govern
ment discovered the error and returned
the money that had been thus paid in ex-
| cess
DR.. Gatling, the inventor Of the famous
| gun that bears that name has invented a
police gun, for use in case of riots 1t
is brass gun, weighing ~ pounds, mount
ed on a tripod. 1t works like eating
and will deliver 1000 shots a minute, up
| down, or sideways, and will clear streets
or house tops in very short time. The
cities that are troubled with anarchist out
breaks are looking very sharp at this gun
The centennial of the state of Ohio will
be held at Marietta, April Z, 1888, Just
| 100 years before that date Gen. Rufus Put
nam, with about fifty men, landed at the
mouth of the Muskingum river to found a
| colony. They represented a company
which had purchased Of the government
| 1900, 600 acres of land in that region
! The founding of this colony may be said to
have marked the opening TO settlement of
the great Northwest, and the celebration of
the anniversary will have more than local
| significance.
DR.. McCosh, who has Just resigned the
presidency Of Princeton college, may well
be content with his nineteen years work
there. When he took charge of the college
1t had 2Si students and seventeen profess
sors and tutors. Now it has SOB students
under forty instructors. DR.. McCosh, in
spite of some eccentricities, has held the
| entire confidence of the alumni and under
his administration large sums of money
have been given to the institution and it
has stepped into the front rank of American
colleges,
The steam whaler Orcas of San Fran
cisco has arrived from the Arctic ocean
with the largest catch of oil and bone ever
taken by one vessel. Her catch is twenty
eight whales, making 2s00 barrels of oil
and $4,000 pounds of bone. Figuring the
oil at 30 cents a gallon, it would bring $S4, @
OOO and the bone at $3.50 pound would
be S2S2, 400, making the total value Of the
catch about $266, 400. The last three sea
sons have demonstrated the fact that steam
whalers are much more profitable than sail
ing vessels for Arctic whaling.
r. c. Clair, of Mill Hill, Penn, is the
heir of an SlS, 1000 estate in consequence of a
single act of courage and mercy during the
rebellion. Clair and T, H. Hinton of Marble
| head, Mass, were soldiers, and on the night
| following the battle of Hatcher's Run, Va,
| Clair was on reserve picket duty. Outside
the picket line lay wounded soldier, whose
calls for water and means of distress were
| plainly heard by the guard. Clair went TO
the rescue and succeeded in bringing the
wounded man within the lines, where he
was cared for and sent TO the hospital, The
wounded soldier was Hinton. He recover
ed from his wounds, and when he lately
died, out of gratitude to his preserver, he
bequeathed his property to the man who
saved him. Hinton was bachelor and was
| without relatives in this country.